Best of Lewis County $1 Our Community Selects Its Favorite Local People and Businesses / Inside Chronline.com 2013 Best of Lewis County Midweek Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Edition Thursday, July 25, 2013 Former Museum ‘Enlightened Contact’ Director Group Seeks Contact With Extraterrestrials at Mount Adams Owes $95,895 PROSECUTOR: Under Agreement, Debbie S. Knapp Would Be 116 Before Repaying Stolen Money to Historical Museum By Stephanie Schendel
[email protected] The former director of the Lewis County Historical Mu- seum will pay $95,895 in res- titution to the museum, ac- cording to the prosecutor’s of- fice. Debbie S. Knapp has already paid Debbie S. Knapp the museum convicted of theft $20,000, and Amy Nile /
[email protected] if she pays the Sophie Sykes, Rainier, Wash., a teacher at Phoenix Rising School in Yelm, meditates Sunday morning inside the vortex, which purportedly is the center of the most minimum restitution payment powerful energy on a UFO ranch near Trout Lake. Sykes traveled with a group organized by the Triad Theater in Yelm. ordered by the judge — $100 a month — she will finish pay- OUTER SPACE TRIP: space adventure, I didn’t know ing the remaining $75,895 in 63 what to expect — or if I believe please see OWES, page Main 16 Reporter Experiences in extraterrestrial contact at all. UFO Ranch With If we did spot a spacecraft, could I report it and still main- Intergalactic Travelers tain a shred of journalistic cred- Woman, TROUT LAKE — Seeing a ibility? And if we encountered spaceship can be part of a spiri- nothing, would I have a story tual journey toward enlighten- to tell? 94, Dies in ment, according to reports from a group of area travelers, who UPON LEARNING THE real-life took a trip to a UFO ranch near story of the woman responsible Chehalis the base of Mount Adams last for the trip, who now refers to weekend.